@ajstringham said:

@scottalanmiller said:

Have you tried booting at home with it not docked?

Never have had a need to.

You do now with troubleshooting

Jared has the best possible schedule. Also as an employee of a consulting company.. he has many customers who he supports, many of whom hire his company because they are willing to work outside the normal 8-5 time frames.

Jared get to spend time with his wife at lunch for a few hours.. then with his kids when they get home from school. then he goes back to work for a few more hours to get his 40. It's the ultimate in a flexible schedule.

Is it for everyone? Of course not, actually it's probably for the very few, because like Loco people like their simple routines.

If JB does have to work more than 40 hours in a week, he does get OT.

Now his numbers where definitely on the low side in my opinion for someone who is basically working like a self employed person, with the exception of needing to carry their own worker's comp and covering the business's side of the matching taxes.

Oh the times we live in.

By the same accident, let's hope they don't blow up the planet.

Hot damn I made the agenda!

@scottalanmiller said:

@JaredBusch said:

This seems more like a rant than an it discussion.

All the communication programs have similar behavior to this.

Does that make it ok to override the system interface?

No it does not, optional or not, it should definitely be IN YOUR FACE when you install it asking you for the behavior you want.

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In the states, can new employers see what you made in previous jobs?

That depends on where you are coming from. But the general answer is no.

In this case, tell a white lie.

"Sorry, but my current pay and bonus exceed the offer. For any move to be financially viable I'd need 65k"

How would they know...

he didn't even need to lie, he gave them a counter offer and they already said no. And that counter offer was $58, 14% more than their original offer.

His full offer was $55K, I thought that he countered with $58K. That's only a $3K increase. Under 3%.

is my math messed up, or is $3k more like 5.4% of $55K? No matter what, $3k is definitely more than 3% of $55K, it would be 3% of $100K.

I know Scott will love this - Go to Spain. Their economy is depressed which is keeping prices low, plus it's a beautiful area!

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This is vacation?

If I didn't have a training budget, I suppose I'd have to use vacation to attend.

Ooohhh, a training budget. That's a good idea.

Definitely ask for one at your next job. Though, short of $5K+, I don't expect you'll go to much dedicated training, it will be more conferences like SW and MLcon.

I'm budgeted for $2500/yr which includes transportation, hotel and meals. Dedicated Cisco training that it's local, for example, the class will be $3500+. Sure there are less expensive ones, but those seem less common.

I've found a lot of places don't believe in budgets. (I do.)

If we can afford it and its a need, we do it.

I don't believe in budgets, but I do believe that training is an essential cost of supporting any department.

Yeah that's really more I mean about believing in budgets.

I feel like if you give people a budget, they'll spend every penny of it.

Have a non-monetary plan in place, and then purchase as needed/available.

This is supposedly how we do it here - no real budgets... we decide what we need, decide if the business needs to do it.. if so.. it's done.

@Carnival-Boy said:

@Bill-Kindle said:

"you HAVE TO HAVE A SAN to do virtualization."

I've heard this loads of times. It must be one of the biggest myths in IT. I'm not sure where it came from, the SAN vendors or somewhere else? Whatever, a lot of IT pros think it's true.

This is the number one myth that was shattered for me when I joined SW. Thanks to Scott.

This is hilarious! @wirestyle22 and I were talking about something super close to this just this morning.

A lot of people getting into IT don't ever learn the fundamentals, and lacking that don't really understand what they are doing, but instead only doing it that way because, well, it's always worked before.

@dafyre said:

What the heck is all that? Her royal highness' matched luggage?

That's new Stormtrooper armor!

Waiting on the parking lot transport.

@g.jacobse said:

We run Sage MIP, AbiliaSuite and Routematch (transportation software), As @coliver stated, they don't support the software in a VM environment.

In cases like this I'll usually do it anyway and lie - unless you find yourself calling support that much? Now if when you're running it during transition and you have problems you just can't seem to solve - then maybe leave VMs behind, but until then.. I'd definitely try with VMs first.

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I'm actually dealing with this right now. I was asked by my boss to come up with a better job title for myself since I am basically a system administrator, network administrator, server administrator, IT manager, among other things.

I think job titles are a good thing simply as a starting point descriptor of what a person's job role is. It shouldn't determine pay as much as all the line items that are listed in your actual job description.

That said, I've landed on IT Administrator since it seems to encompass everything and sounds better than "IT Generalist".

Are you actually a manager? as in you have direct reports that you manage?

What kind of reports are you referring to? I manage various things in IT, like some reports, vendors, some credit card statements & things..

Direct report = employee that reports directly to you that you can hire and fire.

oh no, I can not fire anyone. However, I have indirectly caused people to get fired, but that's another story..

OK - then like me, you're not an IT manager, because neither of us manages people for IT. At least that's my POV.

I choose IT Admin as my title as well - also didn't like the sound of IT Generalist - most people say - WTF is a generalist?

A Generalist means you cover all the bases. What the heck is an Admin?

An admin isn't forced to use the plunger.

Sadly - this isn't true.

No it tells you he should get off the Mac

@Carnival-Boy said:

QA=Quality Assurance

I still can't believe how much you slag off your employer on a public forum (and on your blog). I think it's only a matter of time before you get caught and fired.

I was thinking the same. AJ You really are just hurting your future employment ability as well. I understand that you're frustrated, but seriously you can't go to the world and just trash them and expect that you'll remain employed or be considered employable by the next guy (unless the next guy is in journalism.).

yeah - if they like you -they'll call you - if they don't call you, then they probably want someone else.

You calling them looks desperate, and puts them in a position of power.

I have a hard time getting work done with only ML open...

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You ass